Here is the story of how our wedding came to be in South Africa because of charlyâs bakery ):

Rune and I have been back and forth to Cape Town since 2004, because of studies and work. Every time we have stayed in Cape Town, Charlyâs bakery have featured big time in our lives there – we just cannot resist the delicious cakes, cookies and pies you make. The taste is totally yummy, and the decor and colours are just to die for ). The last time we stayed in Cape Town for a longer period of time, we lived just around the corner to where Charlyâs bakery used to be. We lived in The Square, and every day when going to and from Iziko:South African Museum, where we worked, we passed by Charlyâs. And the delicious smells always managed to get us in to the bakery and buy something. Luckily we had a gym in our appartment complex, or else weâd be in serious trouble to get clothes to fit ). Anyways, every time we went in to Charlyâs, we always used to study all the fantastic wedding cakes that youâd made, and we just loved them ). They were just something completely different, and more amazing then any other wedding cake weâd ever seen before.

In 2008 we went back to Norway in April, and we started planning our wedding for 2009. It originally was planned to be in Norway, and weâd already started to look into venues and service providers. But the one thing we could not find, was somewhere to make us such a spectacular cake as weâd seen that you at Charlyâs could make. And we had gotten our hearts set on a beautiful and different cake. So in my frustration during the planning, I visited your website, and was looking at all the beautiful wedding cakes pictured there. My fiancee Rune and my mother was sitting across from me, and I just put the thought out there: âWhat about moving the wedding to South Africa, so that we can have a Charlyâs bakery cake?â. My fiancee jumped right on the idea, as he also loves Charlyâs bakery. My mother at that time, hadnât yet tried Charlyâs cakes, but she wanted a vacation in South Africa, so she was also ready to move the wedding (and after trying our wedding cake, by the way, my mother has also become a Charlyâs bakery fan )). And thatâs what we did: We moved the wedding from Norway to South Africa to be able to have a Charlyâs cake. So the cake was the first thing we had ready, when we started planning our wedding in South Africa ). And of course, we did not regret our decision! The cake we had for our wedding, was the most beautiful cake I have EVER seen! And it tasted like HEAVEN as well! So moving a wedding to South Africa for a Charlyâs wedding cake, is definitely reccommended.

There you have the story! I hope you liked it. It is the truth! I will send you one photograph of us cutting the cake in this mail, and send an extra mail with another photo, as they are quite large files. One photo is black and white, where you see us completely, and the other is in colour when you just see our hands cutting the cake.

The photos are the ones we have gotten from Christine Meintjes, so please, please put her name (and also her website if you can: www.christinemeintjes.co.za) on your blog when using the photos for the story.

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Well better late then never…Valentine’s day broke all previous records, with Charly’s making more then 3000 cupcakes., plus endless Petit fours and heart shaped biscuits.
Eventually I was icing hearts onto the milk tarts, but still by 1 o clock we had sold out, and still the people kept pouring in.
Even our Corporate customers spoilt their staff and customers with cupcakes!Thank you for the amazing support.

I want to make Madiba the greatest most Mucking Afazing cake ever for the Greatest most Mucking Afazing Man of South Africa, next year in July when the BIG MAN turns 90.
Anytime you want me to make a cake for one of my personal heroes- I’m there like a shot- and Zelda-PA to Madiba- this is a big hint about a certain big 90th coming.

Alex was interviewed for the July Issue of Glamour magazine (go check it out on page54 if you havn’t already.
I’m supposed to close the shop at 4pm, but customers are still walking in at 4.45pm.
Alex Biess, 23, manager of Charly’s Bakery.
Handing over a cake on a special occasion.

Charly’s also serves great sandwiches, savoury quiches and coffees, and makes “mucking afazing” cakes to order for any occasion, from weddings to birthdays to well, Fridays.
This meant I could have a heavily frosted grapefruit-sized vanilla cupcake in each colour-red, green, yellow, purple and orange-all dusted with fine gold glitter.
Charly’s Bakery in Cape Town will make you throw kilojoule caution to the wind.